I don't know why, but, sometimes (- well, actually, quite often -), every icon displayed on the first window I get when I double-click My Computer gets rearranged in one big group, without any identifiers (- you know, identifiers like "Hard Disk Drives" and "Devices with Removable Storage").
Every time I see that mess, I go into the 'View' tab, and re-select 'Show in Groups' and 'Arrange Icons by - Type'.
(It should be like that always, though! That's the default, and I like it like that. What could I possibly do, somewhere else, to ruin that order?)
It bothers me when that happens. And I even made sure that 'Remember each folder's view settings' is checked, in Tools > Folder Options > View, but to no avail.
Does anybody know what goes wrong, when that organization of icons disappears on its own?
In xp if you have too many folders, this will cause the folder view to revert to the default.
You can fix it by adjusting the registry to remember the settings for more folders.
Folder Settings Save more then 400 For Windows XP
By:System Administrator on:Wed 24 of Mar, 2004 [17:59 UTC] (126 reads)
Topic image Change folders settings for Windows XP so that it will remember a larger number of folder settings.
Regedit:
1) Run Regedit
2) HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell
a. If not present, skip to #8.
3) Delete subkey BagMRU
4) Delete subkey Bags
5) Look for ?BagMRU Size? key (space between words)
6) If not present, create new DWORD value from the edit menu, called ?BagMRU size?.
7) Choose Decimal for value, and enter the number you wish to save (e.g. 50000)
8) Navigate to key ShellNoRoam? (should be right under previous Shell key), and repeat steps 3 through 7
The newer versions of sp2/sp3 had this fixed (remember 5000 folders) but some of the earlier sp1/sp2 would only remember 400 folders.
I hope this will fix the problem.
The key had 5000 in there, but I put in 50000 now.
(Oh, and there were two more subkeys in ShellNoRoam. DUIsomething, and yet another one. Of course, I didn't delete them. That's okay, right?)
So, it was forgetting the setting for the very first folder (My Computer), because I was asking it to remember more than 5000 folders? Is that the way it works?
It just happened that MPC crashed, I rebooted, and then, when I opened Windows Explorer again, there they were, all the icons stupidly thrown together (- no groups, as I had arranged them before).
So, the 'regedit' solution didn't solve this problem.
